Kristen Bell Admires ‘Cute’ Dax Shepard On ‘Hit & Run’ Set

There are plenty of reasons to go see “Hit & Run,” Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard’s new R-rated action comedy, and they include, in no particular order: muscle cars, pretty Bradley Cooper disguised as a not-so-pretty bad guy, a romance sort of based on Bell and Dax’s real-life love, etc.

Also, the film showcases Shepard’s talents as an actor and director, a fact that had his star and lady love quite distracted on set.

“He was so cute directing because he wore this big cowboy hat and he always had a pair of cans [industry speak for "headphones"] on, you know where you can hear the audio and I was sort of half really excited to work with someone that I creatively trusted as much as [him], and then half just really beaming with pride like, ‘Oh my god, look at how cute he is!’” Bell gushed, adding that his method for calling ‘Cut’ was particularly adorable.

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“This is my official cut symbol,” Shepard said while demonstrating the circular “rolling” motion with his hand. “This typically means ‘rolling,’ but I flipped it on its head and I’d go “CUT!” [making the 'rolling' sign] and then I’d go “ACTION!” which he demonstrated by making a cutting motion with his hand, as if it were a pair of scissors.

Despite the joking around about Shepard’s amateur director’s motions, this wasn’t his first-ever feature film, just the first one with a big budget.

“I had made a movie for nothing, like $5,000 bucks a couple years beforehand and all my friends were nice enough to be in it ["friends" like Ashton Kutcher, Tom Arnold, Jon Favreau and Bradley Cooper], and I don’t know whether they thought it was a good movie at the end of the day, but I do deliver a really good time,” he said.

“It was a very good movie,” added Bell. “It’s called ‘Brother’s Justice.’ It’s really funny.”

“Yeah, and if you work with us on our set, it’s a really good time,” Shepard said. “I think people were mostly drawn into just like the hanging-out-together aspect of it.”

“We’re full-time actors, part-time party pumpers, so it’s not a lame set,” said Bell.

“You might even have that backwards, we might be full-time party pumpers, part-time actors,” Shepard corrected.

Do you think Kristen and Dax have the same on-camera chemistry as they do in real life? Let us know in the comments!